William Noel
Manuscript Curator | Unlocking the Secrets of History's Treasures
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William Noel is a renowned manuscript curator who has dedicated his career to preserving and interpreting the world's rarest historical documents. As the former Director of the Walters Art Museum's Manuscript Department, he led efforts to digitize and study fragile texts dating back centuries.
Noel's work has been featured in acclaimed PBS and BBC documentaries, shedding new light on the cultural significance of handwritten archives. His captivating keynotes transport audiences back in time, revealing how the past can inform our understanding of the present.
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Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously-unknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes and others.
| Event | Year | Location |
|---|---|---|
| TEDxSummit 2012 | 2012 |
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